Meaning and history
From Sanskrit करण (karaṇa), meaning “clever” or “skillful.”
20062006: 41 births, rank #2,784
2007: 38 births, rank #3,025
2008: 35 births, rank #3,221
2009: 47 births, rank #2,623
2010: 33 births, rank #3,308
20112011: 28 births, rank #3,695
2012: 34 births, rank #3,231
2013: 30 births, rank #3,497
2014: 19 births, rank #4,866
2015: 23 births, rank #4,295
20162016: 17 births, rank #5,318
2017: 16 births, rank #5,526
2018: 18 births, rank #5,106
2019: 16 births, rank #5,555
2020: 12 births, rank #6,620
20212021: 16 births, rank #5,562
2022: 9 births, rank #8,300
2023: 16 births, rank #5,666
2024: 16 births, rank #5,659
20252025: 12 births, rank #6,803
Karan rose from #872 to #833 for girls between 1958 and 1959. Its highest annual birth count came in 1956, with 170 births.